Posts Categorized: Local Marketing

Google Hotpot just launched yesterday and I got to tell you, it’s pretty cool. You can very quickly rate all your favorite restaurants and businesses. Even better, you can friend all your Google contacts and then compete to see who rates the most businsses. If you have an Android phone with location based services enabled it…

With Halloween coming up, we were wondering how haunted houses, haunted forests, haunted corn mazes, and haunted laundromats did business, marketed their hauntings, and made money. You’d figure that, in 2010, the number one marketing tool for these guys would be social media and the Internet but alas, it’s still the radio. Here’s some quick ideas…

According to research firm Gartner, “Mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access devices worldwide by 2013 . . . Gartner estimates the combined installed base of smartphones and browser-equipped enhanced phones will surpass 1.82 billion units by 2013, eclipsing the total of 1.78 billion PCs by then.” Despite the fact that…

Social media is awesome and can do so much for your business. But with so many modes of use that it can provide, how do you prioritize, and where do you start? Great questions – let’s start out with listing all 5 modes: Branding/PR Sales channel Promotions Customer interaction Reputation management This is the third…

I read an interesting blog post recently that said that all local SEO was blackhat because it was done for the wrong reasons. I’m afraid I have to strongly disagree. For any local business trying to market themselves with their website, SEO (search engine optimization) is both essential and completely ethical.

We’ve been really amazed to watch things changing lately. Everything is going mobile and everything is getting more and more localized. Local search is skyrocketing exponentially and we wanted to try to communicate some of the changes that are going on. Check out our infographic after the bump.

Using PPC to turn a local online shopper into a customer can be daunting to a local business owner. Thankfully search engines have made competing locally much easier in the past few years. They’ve added several targeting options that help ensure only local audiences see the ads.Targeting locally can be done on a smaller budget…

The benefits of getting your work done on an online job marketplace are clear: Real-time access to a vast pool of skilled Providers, the ability to better manage your staff by ramping up and down when you need to, zero time spent training, results-based transactions, and more. However, choosing one expert out of tens of…

Social media is all about being part of the conversation. Businesses love to automate communication so that they have more time for normal business operations while still participating in new media channels. The fact of the matter is that internet users have become jaded and skeptical. We’re tired of advertisements. We’re exhausted of spammy jaunts…